[The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookThe Light That Failed CHAPTER IX 22/48
The red-haired girl's eyes were alight with cold flame. 'He kissed you!' she said.
'How could you let him, when he wasn't anything to you? How dared you to take a kiss from him? Oh, Maisie, let's go to the ladies' cabin.
I'm sick,--deadly sick.' 'We aren't into open water yet.
Go down, dear, and I'll stay here. I don't like the smell of the engines....
Poor Dick! He deserved one,--only one. But I didn't think he'd frighten me so.' Dick returned to town next day just in time for lunch, for which he had telegraphed.
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